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> Something more beneficial to conversation like "I don't think that iOS would ever qualify as a cornerstone of my life. Why does it for you?" would've been a better move.

Nice. I tried a few formulations in my head, but none of them sounded very respectful, so I posted nothing. You give a good example of what someone just told me recently, that a phrasing criticism as a question helps avoid conflict.

And you're right about the 4chan thing, I should've said "something that many consider really dumb" because indeed I don't believe it's always a "dumb" influence (though it can often be so). I would raise an eyebrow at someone naming it as their most important formative influence, though. Unless their name is moot, maybe :)
Great point. B2B marketing can often be very different from B2C marketing.
No - there is a 3 month minimum for data. You have to add 20 times as much data as you have to download for free over a month, 600 for a day, or 14400 for an hour. Multiplied by 3c a gig.
You're scaring me. I drink a LOT of tea. I usually go through 8-10 tea bags in a day (always black, no sugar or milk). I've always worried about the tannins and the kidney stones. No problems so far!
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> Disagreeing with people is fine and good, disparaging them for lacking common sense or being foolish

Okay, but first, locate and circle the words you have just assigned to me in my original post. What? Can't find those words? Know the expression "straw man"?
The combined network hashrate of Bitcoin is currently right around 20,000Ghash/s: http://bitcoin.sipa.be/

Which is about 2,500X the processing power of an AMD 7970. Bitcoin is hashing SHA256, which is about as computationally expensive as SHA-1 (or maybe even cheaper, according to comments on the linked blog post).

Much of the Bitcoin computational power comes from large mining operations controlled by individuals. Their processing power is easily diverted elsewhere, if the profit motive is there...
Pretty sure Steve was just saying no. If it wasn't the music, it would have been something else.

Steve had a way of saying that ideas weren't good enough until suddenly they were... but then they were his.
Also, if you are a company that does hourly backups and keeps them for a year, you can grab back 14 of them per day, which is plenty. That seems to be the canonical use case.
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hey guys,

i built this with a friend and didn't expect it to get posted to HN already. we just got it approved and i accidentally hit our Like button before we were even ready. my friends immediately commented on the story so we just said, what the hey :-)

in any case, it just "launched" today, was only meant for friends to test out, and yes i agree we need to write more copy.

to address some concerns:

- this is really only meant for developers at the moment; i.e. those who actually know their way around AWS. if and when we decide to take payments and provide a service, you can expect a lot more documentation and support. we have no desire to dupe normal folks. we built this for ourselves and really only expected friends to try it out first.

- you don't need to go to your AWS console to get your files. once a file archives, you can click a button to download it back to your Dropbox

- putting in warnings about the quota is a great idea! we'll do that ASAP.

keep the feedback coming, we really appreciate it and wanna build something useful for everyone.
I don't see how that isn't true for the other examples of Google and Amazon?
I want to both be exceptional and lament.

I have vision and foresight, thank you very much.

I won't ask you, b/c you seem like you might be a bit of an ^sshat.
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I'd like to see someone provide a service in a similar vein to this but just for photos.

What I'm thinking is a service that uses Glacier to store my photo library and some type of front end service (like dropbox) that keeps a low res version of that photo along with some meta data about it.

My reasoning for this is that we all build up pretty significant photo libraries (mines already over 60GB) and I'm always trying to make sure I have them backed up. I currently use a paid plan at Dropbox so I can put them all up there but it's kind of a waste since I hardly ever pull many of them down again. Every once in awhile I browse through them looking for certain pictures that I might need to get a copy of (which is why I'd need the low res copies easy to access/browse) and then be able to choose which ones to pull down from glacier. The other good thing about a service like that is the need is not typically immediate.

Maybe I'll look into building this since it's something I'd love to have for myself!
You're missing the point. It's unavoidable that if you say "you sound racist" that that attributes a trait to the person rather than their behavior, and is not much different than saying "you are a racist." The rule of thumb is address the behavior rather than the person, which is why the corrective response is supposed to be something like "wow, what you said sounded racist" It's a subtle but important difference. Then you are inviting the person to ask themself internally "did I mean what I said?" or "do I want to sound racist to other people?" instead of going on the defensive because they as a person are being labelled a cultural undesirable. If you make a statement about the person themself there's no avenue forward for discussion or correction, you just made an enemy. But if you make it about the speech, even if they get defensive about it you can clarify that you are addressing the behavior.

There are consequences here because there is username, user identities are often shared across sites, and there is a karma system here. They may be mild, but obviously karma is consequential or it wouldn't exist as a concept on the site. Your score is your aggregate reputation among other users. People fear saying things that will lower their karma.
Trying it now (800mb is uploading).

This tool is great for me because the data I'm backing up is something I'll need to access maybe twice a year, or less. But I still need to have this data backed up somewhere.

I love how it's as simple as Dropbox. Set it up once, the rest is just drag and drop.
Actually, you could run facial recognition on a scrape of images tied to professional profiles, and get some pretty strong inferences on BMI, race and gender. And then re-formulate the question: Are you more likely to see a height/weight disproportionate person vs another minority? like meso-indian, black or female?
> By your argument, all control groups for testing treatments for anything debilitating is unethical.

1. Never said it.

2. It's unethical unless one acquires informed consent from adults. Many of the adults in these studies don't understand enough to give informed consent, and many of the studies involve children.

> So the problem there was not with the procedure of medical trials, but rather with the corruption of the procedure of medical trials, for profit.

And that's the contextual background for any clinical study of antidepressants. Most adults think antidepressants work, but studies show that they don't work:

"Initial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-Analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration":

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

A quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance."

A situation ripe for exploitation.
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If they're crass enough to sue for unlawful termination after being racist, what makes you think 'sensitivity training' will make them not sue?

(I'm not trying to be snarky, BTW, just trying to understand hiring law, and bad employees)
That does sound like a good idea! Sounds perfect for S3, can just store the low-res/thumbnails in S3 for browsing via a web page, then retrieve an occasional photo if necessary through glacier.
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One method would be to setup a normal email address (even something like gmail) and on the server setup a cron job that connects to it via imap and downloads the messages. Probably not the nicest solution, but it might be easiest.
> That's why it's normal these days, for clinical studies, for the control group to receive current best available treatment, rather than a placebo.

That's one of the reasons such studies are so unreliable -- they depend on a comparison of two or more drugs that may operate in different ways, rather than comparing a drug to the absence of a drug.

The result is predictable -- unbiased meta-analyses show that antidepressants don't work:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

This is not to say that wouldn't have been the outcome anyway, regardless of the methods used, only that testing two drugs at once introduces confounding factors.
soon... :-)

akmiller, can we talk offline? i'd love to hear more about your ideas. (we actually have photos in mind.)

just email anything@iceboxpro.com
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"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

— Hunter S. Thompson (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Hunter_S._Thompson#Quotes)

I first learned Cocoa in 2002 or 2003, fighting through the horrendous documentation and lack of sample code. I built a simple shareware app, made a few dollars on it, and then worked on Windows software for the next few years.

Fast-forward a few years, and Apple ships an SDK for the (since-renamed) iPhone OS. I was able to dust off my (incredibly rusty) knowledge of Cocoa, learn a few things about the brand-new UIKit framework, and build and ship an app in a week (nights and weekends, no less) that ended up on the App Store's top ten paid apps list for several weeks.

Of course, I got incredibly lucky in picking the right stack years before it was the right stack. There was simply no way to know.

I learned Rails in early 2007 while working at Microsoft, and have used it in every job I've had since leaving. Rails seemed like a pretty safe bet at the time in terms of popularity, but I never anticipated it would become as popular as it has. My only reason for learning Rails was because it looked awesome.

Meanwhile, I'm (at least for now) completely ignoring Node.js. This might prove to be a mistake, but I assume I can pick it up without too much trouble later on if not knowing it becomes a liability.

Lately, I've been teaching myself Ember.js, which has been a heck of a slog with its rapidly-evolving API and lack of up-to-date samples demonstrating 'real world' use[1]. I hope I'm ahead of the curve on where client-side web development goes, but there's simply no way to tell yet. And even if I'm wrong, it's ok because I think Ember is cool and worth learning in its own right for what I'm using it for.

I guess if I had to sum my thoughts up it would be: learn cool stuff not because you're trying to provide yourself with job security, but because it's cool stuff. If you pick the wrong technology, hopefully all of the time you invested in learning another stack provides value in terms of exposing you to similar concepts, and you'll be able to pick up the 'right' one with far less effort than you'd have to expend otherwise.

[1] I'd love to be proven wrong on this point. It'd save me a lot of time and hassle :)
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What would more "taste of scheme" mean? Do you mean like lexically-shaped macros?
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I'm not sure you can use competitors' logos like that.
More interesting is how this guy keeps getting on the front page. I do wonder what his conversions will be on this more meta article.
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Google (and others) probably have enough patents to give Apple some real headaches here, but I sincerely hope their response is to innovate quicker in order to stay ahead instead.

That being said, it's going to take time as well as money for Apple to even marginally close the gap. Google has a tremendous lead when it comes to data. e.g. Just having a place on your map arguably isn't enough when Google probably has a dozen user reviews just for your local neighborhood dry-cleaner! No doubt that's why Apple initially tried to ram their maps down all iOS users' throats.
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> They do this all the time with every drug the FDA tests.

Not necessarily. Imagine testing a drug that's supposed to reduce the suicide rate among teenagers, and yes -- it's been done.

Compare suicide rates, write up the result, then spend the next five years in court listening to outraged parents.

The outcome is that these kinds of drugs are no longer tested on humans. Antidepressants are at the top of the list of drugs that are difficult to realistically test, which explains why they were falsely believed to work for so long. On that topic, a recent meta-analysis reveals that they don't work:

http://www.plosmedicine.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fj...

A quote: "Meta-analyses of antidepressant medications have reported only modest benefits over placebo treatment, and when unpublished trial data are included, the benefit falls below accepted criteria for clinical significance."

Translation: "we located all those studies the drug companies suppressed, and when they are included in a balanced analysis, it wipes out the scientific justification for prescribing these drugs."
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Hmm. No involuntary dilation of the irises...
We? Speak for yourself. Your standards of efficiency are not relevant.
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For systems using HMAC? No. For systems using RSA signatures of SHA-1 hashes? Yes.
Is the data stored on Glacier encrypted?
Bitcoin is SHA-2-256 I believe.
I use Backblaze--$50/year--primarily for photos. My photo drive sits at around 900GB currently. It's entirely in Backblaze, in case it ever explodes and local backups fail.

I let it handle other drives, too, although I exclude my media/music/download/etc drive for simplicity.
Surely it is possible to have an 'image-based system' where can also work with 'the existing filesystem toolset' as required. Its a bit of complexity in bridging the gap, but I don't think necessarily a show-stopper (you might disagree with me here - happy to discuss if you are interested). I agree its a big issue, but not necessarily that its a binary choice as you describe it.
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You win some, you lose some. I was in the middle of a bunch of other stuff and dashed off a comment that got itself taken in ways I didn't intend. Sorry! :)
I suppose you might not want to give up your secrets, but anyone have a good place to source raspberry pis from in the US?

Everytime I see cool projects like this on HN I go to try to find some and get disheartened by month or 2 ship times.

EDIT:
http://www.newark.com/jsp/search/productdetail.jsp?id=83T194...

http://www.adafruit.com/products/998

http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/83-14277

are all on wayyyy backorder. :(

and the sellers on amazon are way overcharging.

Fry's doesn't seem to have them?
Especially when we're talking about something like SHA-1 that was designed to be efficiently implemented in hardware.
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It should be fairly trivial to patch your copy of nginx to use the entire IP address as the hashing key.
Most practical functions, as implemented when programming, are primitive recursive, not partial recursive. Thus they don't suffer from the halting problem.
You didn't use those exact words, but it would seem the logical extension of your argument. And to claim that any clinical study of antidepressants is corrupted for profit would seem to ignore the fact that the evidence you are using about anti-depressants not working comes from clinical studies. You can't have it both ways.
Really? They are going to be bummed when they learn Bitcoin is SHA256.
Buford here. Looking forward to seeing this years class. See you the 20th (or 19th)!
There's another one in planning process in the Palo Alto area...closer to the event venue

https://www.facebook.com/events/425017657562473/
Completely agree, probably one of the biggest complaints I have (which is definitely a positive comment on thinkpads overall).
As anyone who has had my comments inflicted on them long enough can tell you, if I had meant to point out that people shouldn't enjoy living out of a van (if that's there thing), I would have made that point, repeatedly, in painful detail. That's not what I was saying.
Why couldn't a call center employee ... wear whatever they please?

Presumably the managerial types are trying to help cultivate a "professional" environment.

Never in a million years would I ask an employee to submit to a drug test

I understand the personal freedoms angle, but I can also sympathize with employers who are tired of discovering that guy they hired last week is actually a raging meth head.
Trolling is the art of feigning one or more of the following: empathy, ignorance, sincerity. You're really only fending off non-native speakers and spammers who give up very quickly (one could guess and ultimately get many correct answers). Not to mention that there will be a finite and probably short list of question/answer combos. Most of the variation will be in the questions I imagine and it will be in the form of noise (synonyms and different sentence structures).

They make it very easy to scrape too. The question text is plain text (no need to OCR that) and you can run that through your favorite NLP package to extract useful structure to work from. The answers are each displayed as individual images on the page, making it trivial to know how many possible answers there are. That also makes it easier to run your favorite OCR package on the individually sliced images.

Always glad to see people cracking away at this problem though. It's great fodder for machine learning enthusiasts.
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In the past three years, nothing has has contributed more to my career (and financial growth) than my open source work. It's instant street cred (and a ton of fun).

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mcmelectronics, element14, and adafruit all have 3-5 day ship times.

you can also buy on amazon.com if you don't mind paying a premium for faster delivery.

pretty much everyone sells the rpi now, it's not hard to find. you might even find it at your local fry's.
Same here, it seemed like a big decision to give it up but I forgot about it overnight. Once you realize it's the worst way to talk to girls ever invented it kind of loses it's value.
"Mistake" implies the person should have known better. There are plenty of little guys who got trampled by the crash who did nothing wrong.
This is great for those who can't make it into San Francisco that night.
How does it harm small businesses when people "like" Walmart on Facebook? You can't buy artisanal marshmallows at Walmart, and it's no cheaper for Walmart to collect "likes" on Facebook than it is for Hipster Marshmallow Factory.

I just don't see the controversy here.
> Only one thing sucks more than pagination: a very long article, you accidentally scroll and forget which section you are reading.

That's why some people tend to select and highlight random bits of text while reading. It's not always because they're just fidgety :)
Its not about the idea, about the product or about the technology. It was Steve's unique way to change the way a product is made, to make it intuitive, elegant and simple which set him apart.

Its not the idea, but implementation of the idea, in the most creative and beautiful manner, that matters.
stayed in state parks... usually just $10 or so a night.

So, $300/mo?

covered 11,000 miles

I'll be generous and say your 1978 RV got 10mpg. That puts you at around $4,000 in fuel costs, assuming this trip was in the past couple years.

1978 Dodge RV, which I bought in LA for about $3000... When I was done I donated the camper

spent less money than most would spend on the average Las Vegas trip.

Good lord. Based on my estimates, you racked up $7-8,000; how much do people spend in Vegas?
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So you want to downvote his objection on the over hype in the blog?
Strange, where are you located? I've bought the RPi on amazon.com before, pretty fast shipping. When in doubt, search on amazon. It's $60 on amazon prime which includes shipping. It's about $15 more than the usual places, but with the assurance that you'll get it in 2 days.
gosh, i thought about this when glacier was out, glad someone is doing that.
yes.

http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/faqs/
I went back and read the first sentence multiple times and didn't see a point. There's a principle at work? That's the point? If it was then I'm disappointed. I thought there might be some kind of mention of what it actually was.
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I admit that I was disappointed there were no tortoises involved.
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I believe that "sexual orientation" is favored. The parallel I like to use is being right-handed or left-handed. It's not that lefties "prefer" to use their left hand for tasks requiring dexterity, they are oriented that way.